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rizky's posts with tag: gunungjati
|  | sunan gunungjati was a javanese wali who founded the city of cirebon and the banten sultanate. born as syarif hidayatullah in ad 1448, he was the son of nyai rara santang, who was the daughter of prabu siliwangi (the ruler of sunda kingdom). his father was syarif abdullah maulana huda, a leader in egypt of hashimite descedent from palestine.
sunan gunungjati worked at demak and banten, and was the founder of banten sultanate. many stories say that he was originally from pasai in aceh, others say that he was from pajajaran (the capital of sunda kingdom) in west java. he married the sister of sultan trenggono of demak, and led military expeditions for demak against banten, a port of sunda kingdom (which was still hindu at that time). as "fatahillah" he defeated the portuguese when they tried to take sunda kelapa (now jakarta) in 1527.
for all some bad experiences in cirebon, the worst was yet to come until i visited this shrine. arrived on the first of 3 gates in order to enter the first pendopo pavilion i put some donation to the donation box looked over by a guy wearing a traditional cirebonese costume, which i thought was the official one, until i realized there were another 7-8 donations box lined on the way. but it would not be a problem if they did not ask the donation by force. two of them even hold my hand and chess to prevent me entering the pavilion, because i was rejecting to put donation on each box, madness!! |
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